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Dina AnselmiDina Anselmi— children’s social, cultural, cognitive and gender development, metacognition and modifiability of intelligence in school aged children and college students, parent and child decision making and the relationship to children’s rights.

 

  • Anselmi, D., Reuman, D., Godfrey, T., Lopez, M., & Avery, D., (March 2015). The Effects of a  Metacognitive Intervention on Academic Achievement in 8th Grade Social Studies.
  • Anselmi, D.L. (2000). The Meaning of “Race”: Psychology’s Troubled History. In B. Lang (Ed). Race & Racism in Theory and Practice. Lanham, MD. Rowman & Littlefield Pub.
  • Anselmi, D.L. & Law, A.L. (1998). Questions of Gender: Perspectives and Paradoxes. New York: McGraw Hill.

Click on the email link below to contact Prof Anselmi if you are interested in pursuing research or a senior thesis with her.  Include the following information:  Your name, Class year, cell phone number, your email, and please indicate 1) why you are interested in doing research or a senior thesis with Prof. Anselmi and 2) what you hope to gain from the research.   [email protected]

Elizabeth Casserly – communication, speech perception and speech production in different environments, interactions across types of sensory feedback during behavior, developmental and adult “play” with novel sources of feedback.

 

  • ​Casserly, E. & Barney, E. (2017). Auditory training with multiple talkers and passage-based semantic cohesion. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 60, 159-171.
  • Casserly, E. (2015). Effects of real-time cochlear implant simulation on speech production. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 137(5), 2791-2800.
  • Casserly, E. & Pisoni, D.B. (2013). Nonword repetition as a predictor of long-term speech and language skills in children with cochlear implants. Otology & Neurotology, 34(3). 460-470.

Click on the email link below to contact Prof Casserly if you are interested in pursuing research or a senior thesis with her.  Include the following information:  Your name, Class year, cell phone number, your email, and please indicate 1) why you are interested in doing research or a senior thesis with Prof. Casserly  and 2) what you hope to gain from the research.   [email protected]

Brian Chin – social relationships (e.g., attachment theory, social support, social networks, social interactions, social behaviors, loneliness); behavioral medicine (e.g., sleep/circadian rhythms, exercise, eating, stress); social determinants of health (e.g., race, socioeconomic status)

  • Chin, B., Lindsay, E. K., Greco, C. M., Brown, K. W., Smyth, J. M., Wright, A. G., & Creswell, J. D. (2019). Psychological mechanisms driving stress resilience in mindfulness training: A randomized controlled trial. Health Psychology, 38(1), 759-768. 
  • Chin, B. N., Kahru, K. M., Lehrer, H. M., Stahl, S. T., Krafty, R. T., Hall, M. H., Buysse, D. J., & Smagula, S. F. (2022). Activity patterns associated with depression symptoms in retired day and night shift workers. Mental Health and Physical Activity, 23, 100467. 
  • Xie, Y., Chin, B. N., & Feeney, B. C. (in press). Mechanisms linking attachment orientation to sleep quality in married couples. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
  • Chin, B. N., Kamarck, T. W., Kraut, R. E., Zhao, S., Hong, J. I., & Ding, E. Y. (in press). Longitudinal associations of social support, everyday social interactions, and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.

Click on the email link below to contact Prof Chin if you are interested in pursuing research or a senior thesis with him.  Include the following information:  Your name, Class year, cell phone number, your email, and please indicate 1) why you are interested in doing research or a senior thesis with Prof. Chin and 2) what you hope to gain from the research.  [email protected]

Michael GrubbMichael Grubb – visual perception and the factors that modulate it (e.g., selective attention, temporal and spatial context); speed-accuracy trade-offs in perception and cognition; the interaction of attention, perception, and reward/value.

 

  • Grubb, M. A., White, A., Heeger, D., & Carrasco, M. “Interactions between Voluntary and Involuntary Attention Modulate the Quality and Temporal Dynamics of Visual Processing.” Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 22, no. 2 (2015): 437-444.
  • Grubb, M. A., Behrmann, M., Egan, R., Minshew, N. J., Heeger, D. J., & Carrasco, M. “Exogenous Spatial Attention: Evidence for Intact Functioning in Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorder.” Journal of Vision 13, no. 14 (2013): 9, 1-13.
  • Grubb, M. A., Behrmann, M., Egan, R., Minshew, N. J., Carrasco, M. & Heeger, D. J. “Endogenous Spatial Attention: Evidence for Intact Functioning in Adults with Autism.” Autism Research 6 (2013): 108-118.

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Molly Helt

Molly Helt – emotional empathy in individuals with autism spectrum conditions.

 

 

  • Deborah Fein, Molly Helt, Lynn Brennan, and Marianne Barton. The Activity Kit for Babies and Toddlers at Risk. How to Use Everyday Routines to Build Social and Communication Skills. (2015)
  • Helt, M., & Fein, D.A. (submitted). “Contagious Laughter and Yawning in Individuals with ASD: Effects of Stimuli Characteristics.”
  • Helt, M., & Fein, D.A. (submitted). “Are Children with Autism Susceptible to Contagious Itching?

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Laura HoltLaura Holt – predictors of, and interventions for addictive behaviors (e.g., prescription drug misuse, nicotine vaping, alcohol/cannabis misuse, video gaming, online sports betting, etc.)

 

  • Holt, L.J., Mattanah, J.F., Schmidt, C.K., Daks, J.S., Brophy, E.N., Minnaar, P.Y., & Rorer, K.S.* (2016). Effects of relationship education on emerging adults’ relationship beliefs and behaviors. Personal Relationships, 23, 723-741
  • Holt, L.J., & Fifer, J.E.* (in press). Peer mentor characteristics that predict supportive relationships with first-year students: Implications for peer mentor programming and first-year student retention. Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory, & Practice.
  • Holt, L.J., Mattanah, J., & Long, M.W.* (in press). Change in parental and peer relationship quality during emerging adulthood: Implications for academic, social, and emotional functioning. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.
  • Holt, L.J., & Lopez, M.J.* (2014). Characteristics and correlates of supportive peer mentoring: A mixed methods study. Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 22, 415-432.

Click on the email link below to contact Prof Holt if you are interested in pursuing research or a senior thesis with her.  Include the following information:  Your name, Class year, cell phone number, your email, and please indicate 1) why you are interested in doing research or a senior thesis with Prof. Holt and 2) what you hope to gain from the research.   [email protected]

Susan MasinoSusan Masino – mechanisms of metabolic therapy for neurological health and disease, including epilepsy, pain and autism.

 

 

  • Masino S.A. (Senior Editor); Boison, D., D’Agostino D., Kossoff, E., Rho, J.M. (Associate Editors) Ketogenic Diet and Metabolic Therapies: Expanded Roles in Health and Disease Oxford University Press, New York, (in press)
  • Boison, D. & Masino S.A. (eds). Homeostatic Control of Brain Function. Oxford University Press, New York, 2016.
  • Masino S.A. & Boison, D. (eds). Adenosine: a key link between metabolism and central nervous system activity Springer, New York, 2013.

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Robert OuttenRobert Outten  – intergroup relations, coping with discrimination, social inequality, collective identity, diversity, intergroup emotions.

 

 

  • Outten, H. R., & Schmitt, M. T. (2015). The more “intergroup” the merrier? The relationship between ethnic identification, coping options, and life satisfaction among South Asian Canadians. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science/Revue Canadienne Dessciences du Comportement, 47, 12-20.
  • Giamo, L. S., Schmitt, M. T., & Outten, H. R. (2012). Perceived discrimination, group identification, and life satisfaction among multiracial people: A test of the rejection-identification model. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 18, 319-328.
  • Outten, H. R., Schmitt, M. T., Miller, D. A., & Garcia, A. L. (2012). Feeling threatened about the future: Whites’ emotional reactions to anticipated ethnic demographic changes. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38, 14-25.

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Sarah RaskinSarah Raskin — measurement and treatment of memory and cognition in people with brain disorders

 

 

  • Raskin, S., Lovejoy, D., Stevens, M., Zamroziewicz, M., & Oakes, H. (2014).  Mild traumatic brain injury.  In: H. Levin, D. Shum, & R. Chan (eds.).  Traumatic Brain Injury: A Review of the Research and Future Directions.  Oxford University Press: New York.
  • Raskin, S., Maye, J.*, Rogers, A.*, Correll, D.*, Zamroziewicz, M*, & Kurtz, M.  (2014).  Prospective memory in schizophrenia: Relationship to medication management skills, neurocognition, and symptoms in individuals with schizophrenia. Neuropsychology, 28(3):359-65
  • Zamrociewicz, M*, Raskin, S., Tennen, H., Wood, R., Fallahi, C., Glahn, D., & Pearlson, G. (accepted for publication). Effect of drinking behavior on prospective memory in college students. Neuropsychology.

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